In his public dialogue with Sylvère Lotringer, Baudrillard will offer contemporary corroboration of Marx’s claim that history repeats itself the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. The farcical nature of our present is that global hegemony now cannibalizes its own reality, pervading all facets of social life: politics, fashion, media, art, and everything else.

The dialogue will take place Friday, November 4, 6:00-7:30 p.m. in The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, 1st Floor. No ticketing. No registration. (This is Baudrillard.)